Shin Hanga prints


  Design: Hashiguchi Goyō (1880-1921)  
  Title: Woman applying makeup  
  Size: 51.2 x 36.5 cm (double ōban)  
  Posthumous printing from newly cut blocks    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Goyo Woman applying makeup

Enlargement


Special effects: beautiful silver mica background; gold metallic pigments on the mirror and on the woman’s ring; embossing (karazuri) for the chrysantemum motifs on her kimono.

Originally published privately in the dai-ōban size in 1918 by Goyō. This edition was published in the even larger double-ōban size by Yūyūdō in the 1970s/80s.

Original publishing date and artist’s signature in middle right area of the print:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
tai big The 7th year
shō correct of the
shichi seven Taishō era,
nen year i.e., 1918

Followed by Goyō seal:

Goyo seal

in which the three kanji read:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
go five Picture
leaf by
ga picture Goyō

Yūyūdō publisher seal in lower right margin of the print.

Red label with artist’s name and print titles on the protective outside cardboard folder (left) and on the grey presentation folder inside the cardboard folder (right) in which this double-ōban two-set of Goyo prints was packaged:

Goyo packaging folder Goyo edition number Goyo presentation folder

The kanji on the red labels read (from right to left):

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
hashi bridge  
kuchi mouth  
go five  
leaf Hashiguchi Goyō
       
yazya question mark  
ba horse  
kei valley  
no ’s  
ame rain Rain at Yabakei
       
ke turn oneself (into)  
shō adorn (one’s person)  
no ’s  
onna woman Woman applying makeup

Edition number 492 in black stamp on the inside of the presentation folder.

The protective folder carries the label:

Goyo Applying Makeup Label

in which the kanji read:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
hashi bridge  
kuchi mouth  
go five  
leaf Hashiguchi Goyō
       
ke turn oneself (into)  
shō adorn (one’s person)  
no ’s  
onna woman Woman applying makeup

Names of printer and carver of this later edition in lower left margin:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
suri printing Printer:
sa bridge  
cram Satō
ritsu light  
man Ritsuzō
       
hori carving Carver:
mae plant  
ta rice field Maeda
ken chastity  
ta male  
male Kentarō

This two-prints Yūyūdō set comes with the following information folder, outside:

Goyo information folder outside

and inside:

Goyo information folder inside


References


Provenance: Yahoo Japan Auction

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